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Delhi air pollution: Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai held a meeting with a team from IIT-Kanpur on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of artificial rainfall through cloud seeding to bring down the AQI of the national capital.

Pollution is a perennial problem. Action to counter it must not be seasonal.

Out of the 2,003 stubble burning incidents, Sangrur continued to top with 466 such cases, followed by 221 in Bathinda, 216 in Barnala, 150 in Faridkot, 131 in Mansa, 106 in Patiala, 103 in Ferozepur and 96 in Ludhiana, according to the data

The meeting will be attended by Delhis Finance and Revenue Minister Atishi, Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot, Social Welfare Minister Rajkumar Anand and Food and Supply Minister Imran Hussain. The meeting will be held at the Delhi Secretariat at 12:30 PM.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the AQI in Anand Vihar at 432, in RK Puram at 453, in Punjabi Bagh at 444, and in ITO at 441.

Mumbai air pollution: Maharashtra govt will work on a war-footing to curb pollution by washing roads, clearing debris from construction sites, CM Shinde said

The overall air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was recorded at 418 this morning. Some of the worst-affected areas were Punjabi Bagh (460), Narela (448), Bawana (462), Anand Vihar (452), and Rohini (451).

Haryana’s Hisar and Fatehabad have been put in the category of “severe” with their AQI at 403 and 421 respectively.

Delhi Air Quality Index (AQI) Live Updates, November 8: Delhi’s AQI improved marginally to 395 on Tuesday owing to a slight pick-up in wind speed in the afternoon.

Delhi is the most-affected city by pollution right now and a major contributor of it is stubble burning. Amid this, Anand Mahindra took to X to share a video in which an alternative solution to stubble burning was described.